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> There's another one which hits every 2 minutes without fail [...] it's the one feed user-agent I've had to block outright. It doesn't stop requesting things [
by ghusbands 2y ago
> There's another one which hits every 2 minutes without fail [...] it's the one feed user-agent I've had to block outright. It doesn't stop requesting things [...] Clearly, I need to use a bigger hammer.
I'd be tempted to go the opposite direction and give it articles that seem new, every time, called "Your feed reader is very broken and you should use a different one".
- boricj 2y agoJust give it a custom feed with only one article titled "Your feed reader sucks" explaining why they get this. Maybe even generate the contents of this article dynamically to provide diagnostic messages. That way, badly-behaved clients can't use their broken RSS to receive actual articles until they fix it and they get to know why exactly.